Example sentences of "[adv prt] from the [noun sg] in " in BNC.

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1 Measuring applause does not reveal that the movie was memorable for the woman in the third row because the building on screen reminded her of where she went to school and all those childhood memories came flooding back intercut with the film while the auditorium gently shook as an underground train passed beneath and cigarette ash fluttered down from the balcony in the projector beam .
2 Sunlight poured down from the window in the upper ante-room , to the twin flights of the stairs .
3 The cigarette , tip turned in towards the palm , is brought down from the mouth in an exaggerated arc and held behind the back .
4 I took it down from the shelf in my locker and went out of doors .
5 The Avignon 's captain , strolling down from the bridge in a crisp , freshly starched uniform , smiled on hearing their banter and approached to greet them both with a formal French handshake .
6 Your work is n't lost ; you just have to merge your styles in from the document in which you created them .
7 He thought it a great feat that she had got in from the Point in an hour and a quarter .
8 Mrs Stocks would come rushing in from the wash-house in a lather of soapsuds and thrills at having found the Cap'n 's blackamoor wandering in the yard .
9 Moyola looked the more likely to get the winning score on the resumption and it came when Ruddock , who was unlucky earlier with a header which struck the Tobermore upright , sent in from the wing in the 79th minute and their big outside left Calderwood was on hand to head to the net .
10 John Ensall said residual problems had hung over from the change in working arrangements introduced in January .
11 Ever since the Pill took over from the sheath in availability and popularity , the onus of responsibility has fallen even more heavily on women .
12 Violence spilling over from the conflict in Croatia has escalated dramatically in recent weeks after the republic 's 1.9 million Muslims and 750,000 Croats voted overwhelmingly to secede from Serb-controlled remnants of Yugoslavia .
13 But in others Purcell takes over from the copyist in mid-movement — suggesting that he was composing directly into the theatre score .
14 In the Dialtext product virtually the entire Macintosh desktop has been blocked off from the user in order to prevent potential disasters like the erasure of disks or files .
15 The line should be some 10 or 12 yards ( 9 or 10 metres ) long and it should be marked off from the collar in distances of 1 , 2 and 5 yards ( 0.9 , 1.8 and 4.5 metres ) .
16 So much for the talk on with the race … the mountain bikers hit the road first … 144 set off from the start in the centre of town …
17 She could feel tears of pure joy welling up from the tightness in her chest .
18 He picked a newly constructed swatch of samples up from the desk in front of him and chucked it at Antinou , who caught the flopping thing one-handed and proceeded to fondle it familiarly .
19 Some fruit trees are still dug up from the nursery in autumn and sold with their roots bare .
20 An explosion of methane gas which seeped up from the ground in Derbyshire 5 years ago demolished a pensioner 's house .
21 You 're a fool as well as surly , ’ said the boy , and stuck his neat , short nose in the air and bounced up from the table in dudgeon , but Harry caught him by the sleeve .
22 A peal of laughter rolled out from the darkness in front of them ; rich and deep and full of warmth .
23 Morrissey stood out from the bill in that he 's not yobbish .
24 Practice varies , and it is good practice to find out from the beginning in order to avoid unpleasant surprises at a later date .
25 The large theatre was hollowed out from the hillside in the Greek manner and has a magnificent situation with mountain background .
26 Two Village respondents stand out from the rest in their disagreement with the arguments I have summarised .
27 A good many boys and girls had joined the crowd now and shouts of laughter broke out as a few of them came out from the gate in the kitchen-garden wall , their hands full of ripe peaches , their chins dripping with juice .
28 There 's a slightly different list in the table one produced by Mr , as from the erm the criteria which are set out from the section in paragraph one three of this paper .
29 Eight-inch ( 20 cm ) flying lizards that live in the forests of Sumatra , Java and Borneo can make glides of up to 66 ft ( 20 m ) on membranes supported by elongated ribs that spread out from the body in flight .
30 Most will be the former , with the cable running out from the fuseway in the consumer unit to supply a number of socket outlets on the ring , and then returning to the same fuseway .
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